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Kismet Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA16447
Release Date: 2005-08-16
Last Update: 2005-08-22
Popularity: 7,137 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Unknown
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Kismet

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Kismet, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

1) An error in handling of unprintable characters in the SSID has an unknown impact.

2) Some integer underflows in pcap handling can potentially be exploited to cause heap corruption when replaying a pcap file.

3) An integer underflow in the CDP protocol dissector can potentially be exploited to cause heap corruption and possibly execute arbitrary code.

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